Ligurian language (ancient)

Ligurian is an extinct language from the Mediterranean. After Xavier Delamarre they probably belonged to the Indo-European family; for other hypotheses it was vorindogermanisch.

It was spoken by the ancient European tribe of the Ligures, before it was fully assimilated by Celtic and Italic idioms. Evidence of the extinct Lepontic in northern Italy, which is considered as the oldest detectable even Celtic dialect. Ligurian is alive only in substrates and is tangible in local, waters and people's names.

It must not be confused with the Roman Ligurian language, which is spoken in Liguria.

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